Here’s a beautiful new one from Joanna Newsom, performed live in San Francisco at Monday night’s benefit for arguably our favorite venue in the world. Working title: “The Diver’s Wife,” lyrics here.
Joanna Newsom :: The Diver’s Wife (live in SF)
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i love Joanna.wonderin where that good intentions paving company video disappeared
I hear it as ‘I dream in every night the ringing of the prayer’. And then I think it’s, “A woman is alive, a woman is alive, you do not take her from his side.” I also used to think it was ‘the depths of the southern world’ rather than ‘arid world’ but now I’m not too sure. And ‘the divers and the seers’ rather than ‘the divers and the sailors’.